The Daily Mail majorly missed the point of Beyoncé’s new “Pretty Hurts” video, from her brand new surprise album. The song is an updated, race-conscious Beauty Myth: The Musical, highlighting the restrictive beauty standards that harm even those women who “win” ladyhood. But the Mail apparently didn’t get the memo, announcing, in a big bold headline, “Beyoncé shows off trim waist as she plays a pill-popping beauty queen in music video for Pretty Hurts off her just-released album.” The article then goes on to marvel how AMAZING it is that the brand new mom has shed that pregnancy weight to convincingly play a miserable pageant star.

[Barilla] went on a Radio24 program to explain the company’s apparent position against depicting gay couples or families in its advertisements. “I would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect but because we don’t agree with them. Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role,” Guido Barilla said. The executive also told the program’s hosts that “if the gays do not agree, they can always eat pasta from another manufacturer,” which prompted a swift boycott from advocacy group Equality Italia.

The world’s largest pasta manufacturer later “apologized,” explaining Mr. Barilla has ...

Ok so I actually don’t know if this person is a feminist or not. But standing by one’s anti-racist values like this, despite the cost is a little feministy.

Timothy L. McNair is an aspiring opera singer and graduate student studying at Northwestern University. Walt Whitman was an American poet who is revered for his contributions to American literature and prose. Here is what many folks took for granted about each of them. Whitman was racist bigot who equated black folks to primates, stood by the position that American wasn’t the place for blacks, and believed that we should be eliminated. As for McNair, he is willing to risk his graduate degree to resist that racism.

So what do Whitman and McNair ...

Ok so I actually don’t know if this person is a feminist or not. But standing by one’s anti-racist values like this, despite the cost is a little feministy.